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Aerospace, Volume 9, Issue 12

2022 December - 113 articles

Cover Story: This paper proposes a distributed turbo-electric hybrid propulsion system architecture for air–ground aircraft, consisting mainly of the turboshaft engine, hybrid energy storage unit and distributed electric drive-propulsion units. Power calculation, energy and weight analysis are conducted under the air–ground amphibious profile. Genetic algorithm is applied to sizing for optimal total weight and propulsion efficiency, and the energy management framework is designed by adopting an equivalent consumption minimum strategy and fuzzy logic control. Simulation results indicate that this architecture can achieve a 21.80% fuel consumption and CO2 emission optimization rate at the cost of 10.53% mass increase compared to the oil-powered system. Hybrid energy storage can reduce mass by 8.1% and volume by 3.77% compared to the single storage. View this paper
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Articles (113)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,549 Views
24 Pages

19 December 2022

With the increasing bandwidths of servo control systems and decreasing mode frequencies, aeroservoelastic (ASE) stability evaluation has become an essential part of flight vehicle design. However, the theoretical method is limited by the modeling err...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,360 Views
15 Pages

19 December 2022

In this paper, an innovative approach to the development of a skew control system is discussed to increase the speed and quality of the development of this system. To achieve this goal, we chose the Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation method, which invol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,557 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Strategic Aircraft Track Planning Method Considering Conflict Probability

  • Ruiwei Liu,
  • Siqi Hao,
  • Yaping Zhang,
  • Chonghang Xu,
  • Wenjing Li and
  • Yunrui Mo

19 December 2022

Generally, air track planning is conducted in real time and takes modified track distance minimization as objective. Next-generation air transport systems provide aircrafts with more flexibility in track planning and more responsibilities in self-sep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,716 Views
24 Pages

19 December 2022

Future high traffic densities with drone operations are expected to exceed the number of aircraft that current air traffic control procedures can control simultaneously. Despite extensive research on geometric CR methods, at higher densities, their p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,079 Views
15 Pages

19 December 2022

In this study, unsteady low-frequency characteristics in a voluteless low-speed centrifugal fan operating at a high mass flow rate are studied with improved delayed detached eddy simulation (IDDES). This study is motivated by a recent finding that th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,538 Views
17 Pages

18 December 2022

The onboard adaptive model is essential to the model-based control and diagnosis of the engine. However, current methods, such as the Kalman-based and the data-driven ones, cannot meet the demands of performance estimation well. Their self-tuning pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,745 Views
11 Pages

18 December 2022

In order to compare and analyze the similarities and differences between normal droplet icing shapes and supercooled large droplet icing shapes, SADRI carried out normal droplet and supercooled large droplet icing wind tunnel tests in the NRC−A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,270 Views
18 Pages

Reverse Design of a Novel Coupling Strut for Vibration Attenuation in the Helicopter Cabin

  • Ming Ding,
  • Jinhui Jiang,
  • Fang Zhang,
  • Xiao Liang and
  • Nansun Shen

18 December 2022

Helicopter gearbox support strut is one of the main research objects in the field of vibration and noise control in helicopter cabins. Aiming to further widen the vibration attenuation range of traditional Bragg periodic struts, a novel type of Local...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,144 Views
21 Pages

Trajectory Planning and Tracking for a Re-Entry Capsule with a Deployable Aero-Brake

  • Egidio D’Amato,
  • Immacolata Notaro,
  • Giulia Panico,
  • Luciano Blasi,
  • Massimiliano Mattei and
  • Alessia Nocerino

18 December 2022

In the last decade, the increasing use of NanoSats and CubeSats has made the re-entry capsule an emerging research field needing updates in configuration and technology. In particular, the door to advancements in terms of efficiency and re-usability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,273 Views
27 Pages

17 December 2022

The aileron is one of the most important tools for adjusting the roll attitude of the aircraft, but the surface flow state of the aileron is likely to be affected by high-lift devices. In this paper, by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,319 Views
21 Pages

17 December 2022

This paper investigates the issue of integrated guidance and control (IGC) design for strap-down hypersonic flight vehicles with partial measurement information and unmatched uncertainties. A constrained IGC scheme is proposed by combining the barrie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,646 Views
27 Pages

16 December 2022

In recent years, there has been an enormous increase in the amount of research in the field of prognostics and predictive maintenance for mechanical and electrical systems. Most of the existing approaches are tailored to one specific system. They do...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,758 Views
24 Pages

Numerical Simulations of Spray Combustion in Jet Engines

  • Arvid Åkerblom,
  • Francesco Pignatelli and
  • Christer Fureby

16 December 2022

The aviation sector is facing a massive change in terms of replacing the currently used fossil jet fuels (Jet A, JP5, etc.) with non-fossil jet fuels from sustainable feedstocks. This involves several challenges and, among them, we have the fundament...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,120 Views
20 Pages

A Homogenization Method for Replacement Stator Models in an Aero-Engine

  • Wenjun Wang,
  • Yu Fan,
  • Lin Li,
  • Yuning Zhang and
  • Zhiqiang Song

16 December 2022

Generally, the high-fidelity finite element models of aero-engines comprise millions of degrees of freedom (DOFs). Although they can provide precise predictions of structural dynamics, the computational cost will be often unaffordable if appropriate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,022 Views
12 Pages

16 December 2022

Thermoacoustic instabilities occur when heat release is coupled with pressure fluctuation, which may cause performance degradation of the combustor and serious structural damage. This study focued on an active control method using discharge plasma an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,190 Views
17 Pages

15 December 2022

The characteristics of aero-thermoelastic coupling are important for the design of the leading edge in hypersonic vehicles. Herein, a fluid–structure interaction analysis is performed to study the leading edge of a hypersonic vehicle using aero...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,084 Views
17 Pages

15 December 2022

Oil mist lubrication can be utilized as an emergency lubrication system in the main reducer of a helicopter. A special-design pneumatic two-fluid nozzle is the crucial system component for atomizing lubricant oil, so exploring the atomization charact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,305 Views
27 Pages

15 December 2022

This paper is concerned with magnetic attitude control of spacecraft. The operation of the magnetic actuators is usually on a duty cycle; during the off times in this duty cycle the magnetometers are used to measure the magnetic field around the spac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,958 Views
30 Pages

Dynamic Boundary Optimization of Free Route Airspace Sectors

  • Lei Yang,
  • Jue Huang,
  • Qi Gao,
  • Yi Zhou,
  • Minghua Hu and
  • Hua Xie

15 December 2022

Free Route Airspace (FRA) permits users to freely plan routes between defined entry and exit waypoints with the possibility of routing via intermediate waypoints, which is beneficial to improve flight efficiency. Dynamic management of sectors is esse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,531 Views
12 Pages

15 December 2022

Radial cracks appear in the labyrinth seal fins of the shrouded turbine blade of an aero-engine during service. To clarify the influence rule of rubbing force on crack initiation, a high-speed rubbing test bench and a numerical calculation model are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,900 Views
16 Pages

15 December 2022

A centrifugal compressor of a micro turbine generator system is investigated by the theoretical model and numerical analysis to explore the characteristics of the tip leakage vortex as the centrifugal compressor approaches stall. The numerical simula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,054 Views
20 Pages

15 December 2022

Aiming at the problem that obstacle avoidance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) cannot effectively detect obstacles under low illumination, this research proposes an enhancement algorithm for low-light airborne images, which is based on the camera r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,443 Views
19 Pages

A Two-Phase Mass Flow Rate Model for Nitrous Oxide Based on Void Fraction

  • Simone La Luna,
  • Nicola Foletti,
  • Luca Magni,
  • Davide Zuin and
  • Filippo Maggi

15 December 2022

In the field of space propulsion, self pressurized technology is an example of innovation capable of improving system performances through reduction of volumes and other optimizations. Potential applications are widespread and not limited to the prop...

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
9,043 Views
23 Pages

15 December 2022

With lightweight, multifunctional, and designable characteristics, porous/lattice structures have started to be used in aerospace applications. Porous/lattice structures applied in the thermal management technology of aerospace vehicles have attracte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,560 Views
11 Pages

Supersonic Combustion Mode Analysis of a Cavity Based Scramjet

  • Yu Meng,
  • Wenming Sun,
  • Hongbin Gu,
  • Fang Chen and
  • Ruixu Zhou

15 December 2022

Since flame stability is the key to the performance of scramjets, scramjet combustion mode and instability characteristics were investigated by using the POD method based on a cavity-stabilized scramjet. Experiments were developed on a directly conne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
16,664 Views
18 Pages

15 December 2022

We study noise generation at the blade tips of propellers designed for future electric aircraft propulsion and, furthermore, analyze the interrelationship between noise mitigation and aerodynamics improvement in terms of propeller geometric designs....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,208 Views
25 Pages

Aerodynamic Response of a Serpentine Inlet to Horizontal Periodic Gusts

  • Shu Sun,
  • Zhenlong Wu,
  • Hexia Huang,
  • Galih Bangga and
  • Huijun Tan

14 December 2022

Gust is a common atmospheric turbulence phenomenon encountered by aircraft and is one major cause of several undesired instability problems. Although the response of aircraft to the incoming gust has been widely investigated within the subject of ext...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,214 Views
22 Pages

14 December 2022

In this new era of space exploration, reusability and lower environmental impact are critical drivers in pursuing innovative solutions for access to space. One of these leading solutions is the Space Rider, a European reusable space plane with the ab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,263 Views
32 Pages

Helicopter Rescue for Flood Disaster: Scheduling, Simulation, and Evaluation

  • Yuanbo Xue,
  • Yuan Gao,
  • Yongliang Tian,
  • Hu Liu and
  • Xiyu Wang

14 December 2022

Frequent severe floods have caused great losses to urban safety and the economy, which raises high requirements for the efficiency and effectiveness of emergency rescue. Due to the flood characteristics, flood rescue requires a more rapid responder a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,341 Views
13 Pages

14 December 2022

Ground thermal tests are always mandatory before any space mission is flown into space. The collected results of these tests are mainly temperatures of the different parts of the spacecraft (nodes) for different mission scenarios. The measured temper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,300 Views
20 Pages

Effect of Installation Error on Rotary Seal of Aero Engine

  • Chunrui Liu,
  • Lidong He,
  • Xingyun Jia,
  • Haozhe Zhu,
  • Tao Chen and
  • Wenhao Wang

14 December 2022

The rotary seal is a key component of the aero engine. Under actual working conditions, most rotary seals always operate in an eccentric state (caused by installation errors), and when a large eccentricity occurs, it may lead to a large amount of gas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,287 Views
21 Pages

13 December 2022

Space robotic systems tend to be more flexible and equipped with some appendages, such as solar panels and communication antennas. The inevitable vibration in the flexible appendage will occur during space missions, and it in turn affects the attitud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,355 Views
14 Pages

12 December 2022

Vibration propagates in the form of elastic waves. The tuning of elastic waves is of great significance for vibration and noise reduction. The elastic metamaterials (EMs), which can effectively prohibit elastic wave propagation in the band gap freque...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,512 Views
31 Pages

12 December 2022

This paper presents original research on the identification and modeling of quality requirements for structural products in aircraft structures. As the main objective of this research, the authors focused on identifying the relationship between the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,017 Views
16 Pages

Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Drag and Lift Forces on a Bullet Head

  • Abdullah Khan,
  • Imran Shah,
  • Shahid Aziz,
  • Muhammad Waqas,
  • Uzair Khaleeq uz Zaman and
  • Dong-Won Jung

12 December 2022

The bullet head plays a principal role in the modern enlargement of an efficient bullet. A bullet’s main design parameters depend upon the lift and drag forces acting on the head. The factors in a bullet’s shape design that affect bullets...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,099 Views
17 Pages

12 December 2022

Firstly, the radar cross section (RCS) test results of the stealthy microsatellite of TianXun-1(TX-1) in the anechoic chamber are compared with the RCS numerically simulated by the physical optics method, and the accuracy of the physical optical meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,716 Views
16 Pages

12 December 2022

As the development of science and technology has reached the point where the desire to travel to Mars has become a tangible reality, the physical limits of human movement are also part of the systematic research based on the space environment. The cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,783 Views
28 Pages

10 December 2022

This paper gives a quantitative account of the influence of slipstream on the aerodynamic performance of a contrarotating propeller (CRP)/wing system, and compares it with the CRP and clean wing. To accurately evaluate the complex aerodynamic interac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,336 Views
19 Pages

Static and Dynamic Analysis of Re-Entry Vehicle Nose Structures Made of Different Functionally Graded Materials

  • Panneerselvam Balaraman,
  • Vijayaraj Stephen Joseph Raj and
  • Veloorillom Madhavan Sreehari

9 December 2022

High-speed aerospace applications, such as re-entry vehicles, mostly involve thin-walled structural components with a high strength-to-weight ratio and high-temperature resistant. The present novel work comprises the structural and thermal analysis o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,689 Views
13 Pages

9 December 2022

The Reynolds number effect induced by model scaling and inflow conditions will affect the aerodynamic and starting characteristics of a two-dimensional hypersonic inlet. This effect is investigated through a numerical simulation method. First, the nu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
11,857 Views
16 Pages

Pandemic vs. Post-Pandemic Airport Operations: Hard Impact, Slow Recovery

  • Antonin Kazda,
  • Benedikt Badanik and
  • Francisco Serrano

9 December 2022

The elements of a new daily normal, airports need to face in post-pandemic operations, are massive flight delays, operational disruptions, and shortage of trained staff. The authors analysed the problems and reactions of airport human resources staff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,792 Views
15 Pages

9 December 2022

During aircraft braking, the change of ground adhesion forces can cause forward and backward vibration of the landing gear, and the performance of the brake disc may exacerbate this vibration. In order to solve this problem, a rigid–flexible co...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1,829 Views
3 Pages

9 December 2022

This Special Issue contains selected papers from works presented at the 11th EASN International Conference on “Innovation in Aviation & Space to the Satisfaction of the European Citizens” (http://easnconference [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,220 Views
19 Pages

Emission-Driven Hybrid Rocket Engine Optimization for Small Launchers

  • Lorenzo Casalino,
  • Andrea Ferrero,
  • Filippo Masseni and
  • Dario Pastrone

9 December 2022

Hybrid rocket engines are a green alternative to solid rocket motors and may represent a low-cost alternative to kerosene fueled rockets, while granting performance and control features similar to that of typical storable liquid rocket engines. In th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,593 Views
17 Pages

8 December 2022

The feasibility of the future more-electric, hybrid-electric, and all-electric aircraft configurations will depend on a good understanding of thermal aspects early in the design. However, thermal analysis of aircraft equipment bays is typically perfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,784 Views
19 Pages

A Numerical Study on the Water Entry of Cylindrical Trans-Media Vehicles

  • Feng Deng,
  • Xiaoyuan Sun,
  • Fenghua Chi and
  • Ruixue Ji

8 December 2022

In recent years, more attention has been paid to vehicles that can travel between air and water, known as trans-media vehicles. They are often designed as cylindrical bodies in order to reduce the impact load during water entry. In this paper, the wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,348 Views
20 Pages

7 December 2022

In this paper, a unified method for the computation of the unsteady aerodynamic forces in the Laplace domain for a wing section in subsonic, sonic and supersonic potential flows is presented. The subsonic solution is a new development based on the pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,992 Views
22 Pages

Component-Level Modeling of More Electric Auxiliary Power Units for Cooperative Control

  • Jiaming Zhang,
  • Jun Fang,
  • Tianhong Zhang,
  • Lingwei Li and
  • Xinglong Zhang

7 December 2022

Today, the more electric aircraft (MEA) concept is gaining tremendous popularity. As a key component of the MEA, a more electric auxiliary power unit (MEAPU) integrated model with high accuracy and real-time performance is essential when conducting c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,584 Views
36 Pages

6 December 2022

Impact indentation is believed to be an effective indication of low-velocity impact (LVI) damage for polymer matrix composites. However, it has been discovered that an indentation can partially rebound over time. Impact indentation and its rebound be...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,633 Views
12 Pages

Assessing the Sustainability of Liquid Hydrogen for Future Hypersonic Aerospace Flight

  • Abdalrahman Khaled Mohammad,
  • Charles Sumeray,
  • Maximilian Richmond,
  • Justin Hinshelwood and
  • Aritra Ghosh

6 December 2022

This study explored the applications of liquid hydrogen (LH2) in aerospace projects, followed by an investigation into the efficiency of ramjets, scramjets, and turbojets for hypersonic flight and the impact of grey, blue, and green hydrogen as an al...

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